Chicago voters back recreational marijuana legalization

In a vote on a nonbinding referendum that asked locals if they want the state to legalize recreational marijuana, 63% of Cook County voters responded “yes,” the Chicago Tribune reported.

The county – which includes more than 130 municipalities, including Chicago – has no power to actually legalize marijuana.

That’s up to the Legislature in Springfield, since Illinois has no system for citizen campaigns to put statewide questions on the ballot.

But voters spoke loud and clear in their vote, meaning it could be “writing on the wall for the state government’s current stance on marijuana,” according to TV station NBC 5.

Standing in the way, however, is the state’s anti-cannabis governor, Bruce Rauner, whose administration has repeatedly thrown up roadblocks to proposed expansions of Illinois’ medical marijuana program.

However, the Democratic nominee in Illinois’ 2018 gubernatorial race, J.B. Pritzker, has followed the lead of newly installed New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and promised to legalize marijuana if he wins in November, according to NBC 5.

One comment on “Chicago voters back recreational marijuana legalization”

I’m a current card holder I’m not sure if I am going to renew my card been a card holder from the start of the program.People are in severe cronic pain can’t receive any opaite prescriptions Doctors might be charged with over priscribing.With this new idea of recreational weed yes might git my opaites back living a halfway normal movement of daily living.